Article: Non-autostylic Pennsylvanian iniopterygian fishes
Publication: Palaeontology
Volume:
23
Part:
2
Publication Date:
May
1980
Page(s):
315
–
324
Author(s):
Barbara J. Stahl
Abstract
Further study of iniopterygian fishes from the Pennsylvanian of North America has shown that autostylic jaw suspension is not, as was originally thought, a characteristic of the group. Two of the five genera possess palatoquadrate elements that articulate with the neurocranium, a fact that calls for modification of the history of the mandibular arch tentatively proposed for these fishes.